‘You don’t look like a Bill’: Why more of us should consider changing our names
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Presidential hopeful Nikki Haley may have lost the first two Republican primaries to a rampant Donald Trump, but at least she’ll be buoyed to know she has my full support. Admittedly, my backing is tenuous: I just love the strangely underreported story of how her husband got his name.
On paper, – he was a businessman and commissioned officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard. Yet when he first met his future wife, then Nikki Randhawa, he was told straight off the bat that his name wasn’t right. “You just don’t look like a. She asked what his middle name was, he replied “Michael”: “From that point on, I started calling him Michael, and all my friends did the same,” she wrote. “Before we know it, he was universally known as Michael … He looks like a Michael.”
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